This paper presents an analysis of the modifications that a synchronous computer support for collaborative writing introduces into the organization of the co-authors’ writing. The analysis is grounded in case studies of different groups of co-authors writing a report together face-toface and at a distance through a collaborative writing computer system. Drawing from these studies I suggest that...

Students involved in this university-state association collaboration have expressed excitement in helping to create progressive changes for occupational therapists and their consumers. After graduation, many of these students have continued their participation in IOTA's legislative committee and have assumed leadership roles in other IOTA activities. IOTA has benefited from this collaboration i...

In today's scientific environment scientists can no longer work in isolated laboratories. The problems being studied require experts from several fields to combine their talents. The instruments used to gather scientific data are expensive and difficult to build so there are only a few in the world. The Internet connectivity and the powerful desktop workstations available today provide the pote...

DiNCQUMGP (Divisions National Consortium for the Quality Use of Medicines in General Practice) reports on a collaboration between doctors, pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, and medicine users to manage polypharmacy (prescribing multiple medicines to a patient) amongst older people. We have reported the outcomes of our collaboration (improving the Quality Use of Medicines) elsewhere...